The original MyStuff installer that we have used for years will shortly cease to work (it accesses files on EMJB's site and this is disappearing).

The disappearance of EMJB's site means that versions below 2.0 will also cease to work
V2.0 will not be affected because it uses a consolidated base kit; this eliminates the need to access other sites (apart from the site that provides the logos).
The original Mystuff installer provides HDDInfo v2.3a; the V2.0 kit provides v2.4b (I doubt anyone uses it anyway)

The output kit can be run on the pc that generated it or it can be transferred to another pc (a network connection is not required as the kit does not access the internet))

Just wanted to say a big thank you for making the off-line installer.
I installed MyStuff last week after a hard disk died.
Tried to do the same today on a 2nd Toppy
(it suddenly started rebooting during bootup)
and the installer failed.
It was unable to download ChannelOrganiser.zip
Looks like TalkTalk have closed the site down.

Thanks for the feedback confirming that it worked and your kind remarks.
I'm guessing that you used option 1 because there is currently a problem with option 2 (the script file is too large for the Setup program)

I'm currently reworking the whole MyStuff installer mechanism. Bearing in mind the age of the product and the diminishing user base, it's all probably wasted effort but I'm treating it as a challenge to my programming skills.

Just in case you are not aware, I can recover recordings from corrupted toppy disks using my ToppyDiskMedic (TDM) program. This assumes that your issues were due to data corruption rather than mechanical failure (possibly caused by the heat).
If you have decided to just reformat before installing MyStuff then I suggest you run my fsCheck tap (in Utilities folder) and post the results in the fsCheck Reports thread; this will allow me to check the state of the disk hardware.

Just checking: Have all the capacitors in the PSU been changed? If not, contact andyfras for details of his repair and/or PSU swap service

As we both use Google Sites. Are you aware that Google wants us to move our websites to their New Google Sites platform? I'm letting you know as moving to the new google sites will change where you get my logo files from. If I cant work out how to do it.

I think I've got a while before I have to move but it could be by the end of this year. How does it affect you?

Be careful Geoff as they may not notify you as you use your own domain name.

I only found out when I last logged in to my site and Google had put links to try out the 'new' sites. Plus there was access to a migration tool. But you may not see these.

I tried the migration tool to see what it did. The logo page sort of had the images there but the layout was different. But none of the links to the files on my site were migrated. It created a folder on my google drive and put all the files and images in it. But I've yet to work out how to do html on the new sites so I can add a link to the files.

I only found out about the new google sites when I updated my site back in May. I've had no communication from google so far to let me know when my site needs to be moved to the new platform. But it looks like the classic sites will not be editable at some point. I just don't know when but could be the end of this year. I'm assuming if i want to keep using it I will need to move it at some point or go elsewhere.

I've found one way to create a download link to a file on google drive that appears to work in the new sites. It's not pretty and may only work in a browser. I don't know if it would work in the Offline Installer or TopManager.

If you want to try it out the link looks like this.

Code:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=<file_id>

You can get the <file-id> from the shareable link for the file in google drive.

Hi - just trying to use your offline installer and topmanager to update my toppy.

When running the offline install builder, I just get a box containing blank white space and 3 lines of instructions:

This program creates a MyStuff Installer kit that doesn't require the installing pc to be connected to the internet.
To use: Click Start, Unzip resulting zip file on pc connected to Toppy and Perform a "normal" MyStuff install.
To ensure the latest files are used, ALWAYS regenerate the zip before use (rather than using an old zip).

I dont' see "start" anywhere.
Tried running it as admin, no difference.

Downloaded and unpacked the zip, but it just comes up with that blank screen and doesn't make any install directories.

Any thoughts about this? This is Windows 7 btw.
The other thing I see, is that my anti virus (Semantec Endpoint Protection) comes up with a warning on the "build" exe, which it claims to just be logged, but maybe it is getting in the way.
I'll also try a temp removal of that to see if the problem goes away).
This is what SYmantec say about it:
https://www.symantec.com/security-center/writeup/2010-051308-1854-99?vid=4294919973
TopManager installer also generates this error, but that works.
Sounds a bit like they've sprayed "xxxxx" on the outside of the "build"ers house!

Happy to try a beta if you have one......

I've got the toppy working again for the moment, the updated files seemed to have fixed it.
The files on the unit were old. Now updated to the latest.
I'll have another go when I get some time (probably next weekend now) and see if it is ok. I've updated the same files on my other "production" toppy, just to be safe.
I'll start a new thread if i'm still stuck.

[quote="litton4"]OK, at the moment, my problem is with your "Build offline installer"

I'm getting the same problem with my Win7 x64.
I'm using Avast. Disabled it's the same.
NO Start button mentioned in the instructions.
There's a box below, presumably to list the running operations...just no start to get it going.

I'm getting the same problem with my Win7 x64.
I'm using Avast. Disabled it's the same.
NO Start button mentioned in the instructions.
There's a box below, presumably to list the running operations...just no start to get it going.

v1.4 is the same.

In my case, its wasn't the AV (I removed it and no difference)

It was something on my work laptop that was causing the problme.

When I ran it on one of our departmental machines (with a custom install) it worked fine. Woth times using Win7